Literary agents.
I sent queries and excerpts from my novel to a few literary agents today.
I am inexperienced and probably very unprofessional, but I tried to be! I did my best to sound formal and sophisticated and stuff... *pouts*
Oh, well. It's all a part of the learning experience. And it's the literary agent, not the publisher. The literary agent will (hopefully) refine me and my novel. I really need to finish the novel. I decided on the tentative title: The Year Everything Changed. I like it. It's just vague enough to make the reader wonder, What changed? I'm writing the big things first, and then filling in everything else. I'm going to make a huge dent tomorrow because I don't work so I'll have plenty of time to type, type, type away! I missed writing over the weekend...
Anyway. I'm not really sure how long it takes to hear back from a literary agent. I'll look into that.